What...the...fuck? Those fucking bastards! I mean, the Fantastic4 movie looks like an ass of horse/manchild mix, and now some dickshit is taking our names and putting them on some fake petition? Okay, anybody know any hackers...?

Yo jake, are you talkin; bout me?
"You know Roger, I'll bet you Lord What's His Face put your name (and everyone else's) up there as revenge for your subterfuge and general mockery" :^)

I confess it was me, but in all honesty I thought I was signing everyone to M.A.N.B.L.A. (Man Boy Love Association) ha, ha. Just kidding I have no idea how my name or any one else got on that petition. What If a petition like this was responsible for that crap Catwoman movie, I couldn't live knowing my name helped bring out a turd on a wheel movie like that.

Soooo.... SIX years later that Thor guy who stole our handles for his petition finally got his wish....

Anyway... I enjoyed the movie. Hardly "Iron Man" but the main actor faired well as Thor (and the actor who played Loki was actually quite good) and those action scenes with him using Mjolnir seriously rocked. I think liked the Asgard stuff much better than the On Earth stuff but that broad comedy seemed to play well with the audience I watched it with...

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> Anyway... I enjoyed the movie. Hardly "Iron Man"
> but the main actor faired well as Thor (and the
> actor who played Loki was actually quite good) and
> those action scenes with him using Mjolnir
> seriously rocked. I think liked the Asgard stuff
> much better than the On Earth stuff but that broad
> comedy seemed to play well with the audience I
> watched it with...

Similar reaction here. It was pretty nifty for what it was, and the Mortal Kombat-Meeyoneer-Frost Giant sequences near the beginning were pure eye candy--ridiculously stupid, but sort of fun.

I saw it with the nephews and we all had a good time...Except Natalie Portman bugged the crap out of me the whole time. That and the whole bit with Hawkeye seemed tacked on at the last minute, but oddly enough that bugged me less than N.P....weird...

Agreed re: the Asgard action scenes and the Mjolnir (mew-mew) action scenes...all very entertaining. Could have used MOAR DESTROYER. Glad cotton-mouth forged my signature on that petition, back in the day.

All I could think about during the movie was how Thor's face stopped growing when he was ten years old while the rest of his body made it all the way to thirty. Weird. And I'm starting to think that Natalie Portman's acting talent peaked around 13 years of age...

Mrs. Gcrush said most of the scenes in the film looked like a video game to her. And that it was odd for a society with the technological ability to create wormholes to be using swords in a fight. She also asked what an "Avenger" is and I explained it is simply, "An advanced marketing concept." It got the point across.

>Given the source material, I don't think it could've been much better.

Agreed. I had no interest whatsoever in the comics, but I really enjoyed the movie. I think they did a good job of playing it all "straight" yet with an awareness of how goofy the subject matter was (Rennaisance fair references, etc.).

Yeah, the door man fella was a little oddly placed, but Branagh met the Bechddel criteria... only when the two ladies aren't babbling on about how dreamy Thor's rippling abs are.

:) Time travel!

Saw it on Thursday as a reward for getting pencils done. Loved Thor's journey of redemption. Confused at the romance angle, but really satisfied with its peak. And Loki was the guy making the most sense until he flipped out and turned two dimensionally evil faster than you can say "Anakin".
The score, by Branagh-fave Patrick Doyle was majestic and emotionally charged, but lacked hummability. It did its job, but I won't be playing it alongside Elfman, Walker or Williams any time soon. It's a shame, really, because his scores for Dead Again, Henry V and Much Ado were phenomenal.

Over all, very well done, and to date, the best Marvel film since the first Iron Man.

I'd be interested to hear what you folks thought of the 3D. My chum and I were discussing it and it seemed that the pure CGI effects, with a lot of particles (like stars and clouds) and vistas were nice, but not ten-extra-bucks-nice, and the fight scenes were nausea inducing.

I wouldn't have bothered with the 3D. The movie was not filmed in 3D so all of that was done in post which never produces good results. I think only "Avatar" and "Tron Legacy" so far were actually filmed and intended for 3D.